There’s a lot to know about the new capabilities and features of SharePoint 2013. This presentation contains some of the most compelling and important new aspects of SharePoint Server 2013 from an IT Pro perspective.

1. Exploring SharePoint 2013
From an IT Pro Perspective
Presented by:

2. About Me
Veenus Maximiuk, MCITP, MCTS, MCPD, vTS
SharePoint Managing Architect
spvee.wordpress.com
@SharePointVee
Linkedin.com/in/vmaximiuk
vmaximiuk@iccohio.com
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3. Agenda
Service Search &
Architecture
Applications Office Web Apps
User Profile Service Demos Q&A
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4. Architecture
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5. Minimum Hardware Requirements
Web/App Servers in Database Server in ALWAYS Perform
Three-Tier Farm Three-Tier Farm Capacity Planning to
determining if
• 12 GB RAM • Small – 8 GB RAM minimum
• 4 Cores & 4 Cores requirements will
• Medium – 16 GB work for your
RAM & 8 Cores organization.
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6. Software Requirements
Web and Application Servers
Database Server
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 x64
or
or
• Windows Server 2012
• SQL Server 2012 x64
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7. Shredded Storage
• More efficient document processing
• Reduced number of round trips
• “Shred” document storage in SQL
• The goal is to make changes equal to
the size of the change, not size of the
file
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8. How Storage Works in SharePoint 2010
SharePoint reads full
Request submitted to SQL
document from SQL
User updates Full document is
Updates are sent to submitted
document
Request SQL reads full document
written to SQL
SharePoint to SharePoint Sends it to SharePoint
Updates are merged SharePoint sends it to user
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9. How Storage Works in SharePoint 2013
Request submitted to SQL
Updates are sent to SQL
User updates
Updates are sent to submitted
document
Request SQL reads full document
SharePoint to SharePoint Sends it to SharePoint
SharePoint sends it to user
Changes are updated and
stored in SQL
“Shredded Storage”
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10. Distributed Cache Service
• Based on Windows Server AppFabric Distributed Caching
• Provisioned by SharePoint setup
• Installed on each server in the SharePoint farm
• Provides in-memory caching services to several features
such as:
– Newsfeeds
– Authentication
– Page load performance
• By default, it is set to use 10% of server’s total physical
memory
– Sample SharePoint Farm
• Cache Cluster of 3.6 GB RAM
– Change value using PowerShell
• Update-SPDistributedCacheSize
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11. SkyDrive Pro • Store and organize your private
documents in a secure location in
the cloud or on your company’s
SharePoint servers.
• Share documents with other
people in your organization and
give them permission to review or
edit the content.
• Synchronize your SkyDrive Pro
library to your computer or
mobile devices so that you can
access your documents offline.
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12. SharePoint 2013 Workflow
• Run on a server that is not part of the
SharePoint farm
• Run on a server that is part of the
SharePoint farm
• Workflow Manager Ports:
– 12290 – Management Port
– 12291 – Unsecured Management Port
• Service Bus Ports:
– 9355 – Secure Deployment
– 9354 – TCP Deployment
– 9356 – Message Broker
– 9000-9003 – Internal Communication
• Registering Workflow
– Register-SPWorkflowService
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13. Licensing Enforcement and Assignment
• Enables licensing assignment to Active Directory Security Groups
• Accessible through Windows PowerShell
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14. User Licensing Enforcement
Demo
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15. Service Applications
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16. Service Application Changes
New Enhanced Removed
• Access Services (2013) • Business Data Connectivity • Office Web Applications
• App Management Service Service • Web Analytics
• Machine Translation • Excel Services Application
Service • Managed Metadata
• PowerPoint Automation Service
Services • PerformancePoint Service
• Work Management Application
Service Application • Search Services Application
• User Profile Service
Application
• Visio Graphics Service
• Word Automation Services
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17. Application Management Service
• Provide Market Place and Corporate
Catalog Services
• Marketplace
– Public
– Microsoft managed
• Corporate Catalog
– Private
– IT managed
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18. Machine Translation Service
• Provide automatic machine translation
for files, pages and sites
SharePoint
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• Processes requests synchronously, Eu amo o 我爱 Me encanta
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• You can control this via Timer Job
through Central Admin or PowerShell
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– $TimerJob = Get-SPTimerJob SharePoint machine translation
“Machine Translation Service"
– $TimerJob.Runnow()
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19. Work Management Service
• Provides functionality to
aggregate tasks to a central
location
• Tasks can be aggregated from
SharePoint, Exchange, or Project
Server
• Requires User Profile and Search
services
• Tasks can be cached to user’s
personal site
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20. Search
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21. Changes in SharePoint 2013 Search
• Many changes to Search in SharePoint 2013
– UI, architecture, administration, development options
• Consolidation of FAST and Enterprise Search components
– 2013 Search architecture based on both products
• New customization model for Search
– Result Sources, Display Templates, Result Types, Query Rules
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22. Office Web Applications
• Separated into new Improved Office Web Apps URLs
server product SharePoint 2010
http://sharepointdemo/accounting/_layouts/WordViewer.aspx?id=/acco
• Provides services to: unting/Shared%20Documents/Budget.docx&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fsh
• One or more arepointdemo%2Faccounting%2FShared%2520Documents%2FForms%2
SharePoint Farms FAllItems%2Easpx%3FPaged%3DTRUE%26p5FSortBehavior3D0%26p5FFi
leLeafRef3Dfbb6fa52%252d91c8%252d42b3%252db7b4%252d26fc586e
• Exchange Server 3e01%252eonebin%26p%5FID%3D777%26PageFirstRow%3D301%26%2
6View%3D%7B0B08DC31%2D658A%2D42CC%2D98CE%2D996BA18C5D
• Lync D8%7D&DefaultItemOpen=1&DefaultItemOpen=1
• 3rd party
document stores
(I.e. Oracle UCM, SharePoint 2013
EMC http://sharepointdemo/accounting/Shared%20Documents/Budget.docx
Documentum, ?Web=1
etc.)
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23. SharePoint 2013 Search UI with Office Web Apps
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24. Search UI and Integration with Office Web Apps
Demo
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25. User Profile
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26. Synchronization Options
Lightweight LDAP “Baby” Forefront
approach internal Identity Manager
to SharePoint
a.k.a Direct AD
Import
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27. Active Directory Import
Benefits & Limitations
• Cannot import picture attribute from
AD to SharePoint
• Mapping multi value to single value
or vice versa is not supported
• Mapping two different AD attributes
to the same SharePoint property is
not supported
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28. Switching Between Sync Types
Before you switch
• AD Import stores connections in the Profile DB
• UPS stores connections in the Sync DB
• Property mappings and filters are NOT moved
– Manual recreation required
After you switch
• Review, review, review!
• Run PurgeNonImportedObjects after a full import to remove items that should
not be there
Set-SPProfileServiceApplication –Identity $upa -PurgeNonImportedObjects $true
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29. User Profile & Active Directory Import Mode
Demo
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30. A Few Last Notes
• Stretched farms are no longer supported
in SharePoint 2013
– “Stretched” means one farm in two
different data centers with less than
1ms latency
– All servers in the farm must be in
the same data center now
• Windows PowerShell Command Builder
– http://www.microsoft.com/resourc
es/TechNet/en-
us/Office/media/WindowsPowerSh
ell/WindowsPowerShellCommandB
uilder.html
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31. Thanks to Our Sponsors
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32. Questions?
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